@Hartinez i really appreciate your updates over the past few years in this thread, your efforts have been very helpful in developing the health of my collected artemisia tridentata. I dug it up it on my parent’s property in Colorado last spring, and just repotted it in a box at a better planting angle this morning (hence the “droopy” looking elongated shoots from this spring - new direction of gravity!) I have plans to jin the whole right side / upright branch next year, but I’m really happy with its progress.
They are really awesome trees, and like I said, I sincerely appreciate your willingness to share so much information. I agree with all of your observations about root and branch connectivity, its love of water, and winter hardiness (made it through a NW MT winter with flying colors, just mulched in outside). I’ve found that it responds very quickly to fertilization, which makes sense given its active feeder roots.